PLD is a waste on anything other than Titan and Coil.

[Ariyn]

I heard PLD tanking often get around 120 dps.. so if he's pulling up to 180 dps in tanking stance thats a pretty big difference.

I'm averaging around 140-150 dps in Shield Oath in coil ... so him doing 180 isn't that much of a boost. Not to mention I can promise you I would take a ton less damage then his setup. There is no reason what so ever outside of blowing through lowbie content for a war to try to max out str. They have enough tanking issues why add in more

Last but not least, paladins will never be as good at farming lower teir instances as Warrior. I pull 2-3 packs in AK on my warrior while Aoeing to hold agro with Overpower [Deals damage] (something a paladin can't do) while our BM and Bard blow the pack up. I deal significantly more damage than any paladin doing what is my basic AOE overpower, and I also deal more damage doing my basic agro rotations on single targets than paladins do. If paladins want to attempt to keep up, they have to go out of their way to break their 1-2-3 rotation to deal more damage than their normal rotation provides, which messes with their agro when attempting to hold down packs with high damage AOE classes.

Congrats. You can out damage a PLD. Too bad your job isn't about damage. Your job is to mitigate damage not deal it. Something that most war's don't seem to comprehend. War's have the tools they need to do so (provided they do need a little buff imo) but if you prefer to go full str then you are only adding salt to the wound. People don't want WARs because they already take more mp to keep up and instead of doing everything you can to fix the problem you're adding to it